Dante’s Divine Comedy | Italian Language Edition | 1849Very nice, early Victorian, Italian language edition of Dantes Divine Comedy printed in 1849. Marbled coverboards and a leather spine. Condition is overall good with rubbing to the covers and a crack between the spine and the title page. Textblock is in good shape though the book was obviously read, studied, and enjoyed.

It has certainly been used at some point

The composition of a child in the clouds is a motif used in early American posthumous portraiture

The statuette is a music box

Meticulously hand carved wooden souvenir pincushion in the shape of an elegant lady’s shoe

The card includes several favorite motifs

This is a loose Victorian hair flower

While it displays beautifully on its own

and if you’re lucky there will be sketches of whatever caught the person’s eye

who died in 1790

This volume contains numerous sentimental verses on the subject of friendship & family

I am ready to move it on to make room for new acquisitions

but also in vanitas still life paintings